Smyrna times., 1887-06-29
Editorial Visitors.

On Monday morning, shortly before
noon, while perusing our mail, having
finished the letters and just taken up
the Morning NerS from the pile of
papers that lay before us, we heard
voice in the outer office inquire if the
editor was in. Thinking it was a
patent medicine man with a remedy
for every ill flesh is heir to-" or pos
sibly a peripatetic corn doctor who felt |
he had a commission to make limping |
humanity happy, or worse still, a book |
agent. 1--WE haVn't n private grave yard |
in the rear of the house like our friend |
Scott Way to dispose of them we kept |
on reading until a shadow darkened
the sanctum. when furtiVely glancing in
that direction who should the imag-
inarv tOrmentor be but F. +. Bach, one
of the editors of the Morning NelOs. Of
course we were glad to see him, and in
giving him the best welcome we had,
who should pop in bat J. b. Clark, ed
| itOr of the SUSser JOHrnds While eX-
tending to him the right hand of fellow
ship also, 10 and behold there stood
in the doorway enjoying the surprise
Geo f. Haddaway, of the EastOn
| Ledger OF course we wanted to know
what had broken loose ," three
wide-awake editors from divergent
| points of the compass, all assembled in
Smyrna on a Monday morning when
such editors are usually buckling down
to business in good earnest at editorial
work. An answer was hardly neces-
sary, as our surprise solved the prob
lem-they were the Executive Com
mittee less brother W. Scott Roberts,
of the Centreville Record, who failed to
make connections or something, whose
purpose was to confer and fix OH Il time
and place for the Annual Peninsula
, Press Excursion. After sitting and
talking of things in general way
brother Bach began to feel some pangs
in the region below the seat of con
science which could be quieted only by
e the settling of a good dinner. Thi:
4 was deemed by all as the first and mos
). important business to attend to, anC
meet in our sanctum again at o'clock
The conference was pleasant, will
numerous agreeable divergences, tn,
result being (if we are not fOrestallini
s the committee) first, CressOn Springs
u Pa, ria the Pennsylvania Railroad, o
e if this cannot be properly carried out
II Deer Park, Md, ria the Baltimore an
e Ohio road.
II 1t was fully three o'clock when tn
r committee arose, leaving little over a
n hour and half to see the town, wit
L which none of them were familiar
IS The object first named was the waite
Is works, taking in the way Main stree
n Town Hall and the machine shops {
le the Taylor Brothers. In this, with il
y numerous lathes, heavy stamping ms
le chinery, evidences of mechanical er
n terprise on all sides, they were agrees
te bly, surprised, but the one over whic
n. they were the most inclined to linge
p (the time for all the places visited WI
le necessarily hurried) was the grindin
as and polishing room where they max
ne the sparks hy-resembling very muC
On a scintillating rocket. Brother Ha'
ld away was especially attracted by th
g machine, and very naturally, for he
p known as an editor who, when Occ
an sion calls for it, knows how to NAL
or the sparks fly" Ere we had reachC
the turn off to the water works desi
dy was expressed by one of the editO
OF who had heard of Belmont to see
EN- joined in by the others, and thith
OF they bent their way. Belmont Pal
ed was in its brightest verdure, beautif
nd in any direction the eye was turned, al
'ut the expression of one of the visitO
TO "that it was the prettiest park he h
hg ever seen" was not dissented from by
m word from any of the others. Z
ie- water works were taken in on the
raj turn, the clearness of the water in t
Oh we'll showing even the little pebb
"a lying at the bottom, calling for espec
ace remark The public school buildi
sIy was next visited hurriedly, calling for
tai commendatOry expressions as to
Is arrangement and architecture. The
ON were other places and streets of privi
residences that would have been obie
IN IN Ofinterest, but the time was up, it "
va va, time to make the cars, where at 4
Une we bade them adieu.